Tag Archive: protection
Google Images is a veyr valuable source of website traffic, but how do you stop people just coming to the site, stealing your images, and leaving again?
Aside from detecting visitors by their IP address, which I have covered in a previous post, you may also want to be able to detect what the referring website that you visitor has come from is, and react accordingly. I find this particularly useful when people are add a link to one of my websites [...]
Spam crawlers are, by their very nature, cheap and relatively inefficient – there are enough people out there leaving their email addresses totally unprotected on their website to harvest that the developers need not bother with anything more complex. Fortunately that makes it very easy to fool them.